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| Gender differences in postretirement employment | | Author(s) | Robin L Pleau |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 32, no 3, May 2010 |
| Pages | pp 267-303 |
| Source | http://roa.sagepub.com doi:10.1177/0164027509357706 |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Retired persons ; Adjustment ; Retirement ; Older men ; Older women ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Gender differences in post-retirement employment in the United States is examined, using the first eight waves of Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data. Gender is shown to be an important factor in understanding transitions into post-retirement employment. 47% of retirees (n = 3,590) experienced post-retirement employment, with 43% of retired women making the transition, compared with 50% of retired men. Marital status, earnings, and household wealth were significant only when gender interaction terms were introduced due to countervailing effects by gender. For women, being married and having high household wealth were negatively associated, and higher earnings positively associated, with labour force re-entry; for men, wealth and earnings had the opposite effect. Hazard models show that divorced and separated women have a greater likelihood of labour force re-entry than married women and that this difference increases with time out of the labour force, suggesting push factors that derive from economic vulnerability. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100908204 A |
| Classmark | GC: BB6: DR: G3: BC: BD: 48: 7T |
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